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The watch sold for 1,428,500 Swiss francs ($1,441,091 at the time of the sale), representing its enormous value and importance to Omega’s history. In 1957, Omega released what’s today known as ...

Omega’s Pilot watch history began with Royal Air Force pilots during WWII. When the Speedmaster was introduced in 1957, it caught on with U.S. Air Force pilots and later NASA astronauts.

Omega’s first Seamaster dive watch didn’t debut until a decade later in 1957 with the Seamaster 300, and the classic “Bond” Seamaster — the Diver 300M — has only been around since 1993. Omega is the ...

The watch sold for 1,428,500 Swiss francs ($1,441,091 at the time of the sale), representing its enormous value and importance to Omega’s history. In 1957, Omega released what’s today known as ...

The watch was bought by Omega itself for 3.115 million Swiss francs ... The item was thought to be a 1957 stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with Broad Arrow hands, and was described by ...

and Bloomberg it was investigating former staffers who it said conspired to get Omega to buy the watch at a hugely inflated price. The 1957 Speedmaster "Broad Arrow" was auctioned in November 2021 ...

The first Speedmaster debuted in 1957. It was first worn in ... as NASA engineer Jim Regan worked with Omega to prototype improvements to the watches worn into orbit and to the moon.

The Omega Speedmaster is such a watchmaking icon that an entire subspecies of Speedies has evolved in the nearly 70 years since its inception in 1957. As a watch, of course, it’s instantly ...